Until the birth of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s daughter, it was a name associated with only one woman in the world.
For decades “Lilibet” had been the late Queen’s cherished nickname – used only by those closest to the former monarch.
Yet the rekindled row over Harry and Meghan christening their daughter “Lilibet” in 2021 lays bare the significance of a moniker first ascribed to Princess Elizabeth when she was a toddler and couldn’t pronounce her own name.
